SQL Contracts in Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL 16 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.41% 8.74% 7.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.62% 30.19% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 24
10th Percentile £203 £356 £363
25th Percentile £255 £381 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £425 £545
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -22.02% +3.81%
75th Percentile £468 £563 £625
90th Percentile £538 £615 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £536
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.28% +2.10%

All Programming Languages
Wales

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 74 106 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.00% 28.96% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 78 112
10th Percentile £222 £356 £363
25th Percentile £322 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £491 £548 £625
90th Percentile £588 £579 £663
UK median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £21.56 £15.45 £17.18
25th Percentile £24.56 £15.81 £17.48
Median hourly rate £37.13 £20.47 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +81.36% +8.80% -5.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £23.75 £19.81
90th Percentile £49.38 £41.75 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.50%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Wales.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Wales over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Wales

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -11 13 £363 -12.12% 52
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQLite
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.25%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Database Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) Anaconda
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (6.25%) FHIR
2 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Clustering
1 1 (6.25%) IoT
1 1 (6.25%) NHS
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) VMS
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
2 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
3 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Database Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Multithreading
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) R
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) HL7
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Datix
1 1 (6.25%) Google
1 1 (6.25%) HP
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) RedGate
1 1 (6.25%) Sparx
1 1 (6.25%) VMware